Ryan Coogler's Michael B. Jordan-starring vampire flick is off to a solid start, especially for an original, R-rated chiller. Now we just hope that it's not frontloaded and that the good buzz entices the unconverted.
Is Xabi Alonso still worth the hype? A pretty hot take from me on the latest Gegenpressing podcast:
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Sure smells like POOP (Putin's Obnoxious Orange Puppet) is well on its way back to the White House.
I don't believe in miracles and right now that lack of superstition has proven unfortunate for sleep, planning for the future, or investing useful effort into just about anything that necessarily rests on the foundation of a stable society.
I'm sure I'm not alone. That's the troubling part.
Perversely, the GOP-inflicted rot within our institutions only serves to "prove" their obnoxious claims that o…
John, I don't think it's just Putin that we we are up against. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but George Bush Senior was around when JFK was assassinated and when Nixon normalized relations within communist China and when Reagan tore down the wall. Russia and China are now capitalist dictatorships and so are almost all the third world Nations on the planet. I think there is a group of rich on the planet that want to have total control over the peasants and the environment. I don't think it's just Putin.
